The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture - Couverture rigide

Allmendinger, Blake

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 019507243X ISBN 13 : 9780195072433

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1993

Synopsis

The Cowboy uses literary, historical, folkloric, and pop cultural sources to document the cowboy's role in the culture of the American West. In doing so, Allmendinger makes use of early oral poems recited by cowboys in the course of their work, and later poems, histories, and autobiographies written by cowboys - most of which have never before been studied by scholars.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

In this path-breaking work, Allmendinger looks past the colorful cowboy of pulp fiction and film to investigate the equally colorful world that actual cowboys constructed for themselves. By assessing the workaday world of the cowboy with a mixture of exhaustive scholarly knowledge and intellectual brio, he reveals a set of sustaining myths to the stories, songs, and poems that cowboys themselves have written--myths by which they instilled their otherwise menial work with transcendent meaning and urgency. Branding read as skin grammar; livestock castration as a masculinizing activity; square dancing as intense moral drama; the lonesome cowboy as labor's ideal: these and other provocative insights emerge from this wonderfully innovative study--a study that not only gives us the cowboy as a serious cultural and laboring figure, but provides an interdisciplinary model in its combination of folklore, history, popular culture, and literary analysis. (Lee Mitchell, Princeton University)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 019507243X
• ISBN 13: 9780195072433
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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